Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Burpee, Nathaniel January 1, 1766 - August 13, 1819 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net July 19, 2008, 3:38 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Burpee, Nathaniel, Litchfield, one of the early settlers of Frankfort Hill, was one of the sons of Moses Burpee, sr., of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. He was born January 1, 1766. He emigrated to this region about 1790, and worked for some years for those that wanted help in clearing their land, as it was nearly all a wilderness at that time. In 1795 he married Merab Smith, who was born in Cheshire, Conn., May 2, 1770. In January, 1797, he bought of Oliver Prescott (grandfather of the late Judge A. H. Prescott, of Herkimer,) 102 acres of land in Whitestown, Herkimer county, (no Frankfort) for 61 pounds and 4 shillings. Here they spent the remainder of their lives. He died August 13, 1819, aged fifty-three. She died March 22, 1844, aged seventy-three. They had five children, four sons and one daughter. Three of them died on the home place. Ephraim, the oldest, died December 11, 1831, aged thirty-five. Susan, the daughter, died August, 1873, aged sixty-eight. Ephraim and Susan were not married. Anson S., the youngest son, married Hannah T. Cary, of Litchfield, Herkimer county. He died September 6, 1850, aged forty-two. He left no children; they died in their infancy. The homestead was sold in 1874 to D. M. Prescott. Nathaniel, jr., the third son, married Abigail R. Wood, of Litchfield of this county, May 17, 1825. He bought the Calhoun place near the old homestead. He had three children born here, two daughters and one son. The daughters died in their childhood. The son, Newton N., was born November 30, 1828. Nathaniel, jr., died July 7, 1835, aged thirty-three. Newton N. married his step sister, Mary Wadsworth, of New Hartford, Oneida county. They lived a few years on the old homestead with their aunt, where they had two children born, a daughter Ella and son Frank. Then they went to DeKalb, Ill., on a farm. Newton enlisted in the army in the late war, served with distinction, was discharged honorably, returned home and died a few years after. Newton's mother married for her second husband John Wadsworth, of Litchfield, this county, and is still living in Chicago, Ill., in her eighty- eighth year. Newton's children are both married, and they and their mother live in Chicago. Titus Burpee, the second son of Nathaniel Burpee, sr., was born in Frankfort, October 10, 1799. He married Olivia Johnson, of Southington, Conn., October 14, 1822. She was born in Southington, July 7, 1801. She was granddaughter of Isaac Ingraham. Titus bought a farm near Frankfort village, where their children were born, Harriet A. and George W. After a few years he sold his farm and bought the Asa Priest farm in Litchfield, Herkimer county, in 1832, which contains about 100 acres, and is a grain, dairy and fruit farm. Here they lived until their deaths, his February 20, 1873, in his seventy-fourth year; hers March 6, 1884, in her eighty-third year. Harriet A., their daughter, was born July 9, 1824. She married Isaac Drought, of Camden, Oneida county, November, 1848. They have five children: Mervin B., M. Olivia, Harriet E., Susan M. and Herbert. They are all living, and all married and have children, except Herbert. George W. (Titus' son) was born May 16, 1827. He married Almira McClure, of Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, February 25, 1852, who left two children, Emma A. and George H. She died February 27, 1862, aged thirty-two. He married for his second wife Harriet Woodbridge, of Trenton, Oneida county, March 18, 1863. She left one son, Edwin T., who died January 8, 1889, in his twenty first year. She died March 27, 1873, in her forty-fifth year. Mr. Burpee married for his third wife S. Elizabeth Savage, of Sauquoit, Oneida county, May 13, 1886 (she is a direct descendant of Miles Standish), has no children. Emma A., Mr. Burpee's daughter, was born October 14, 1854. She married A.C. Paddock, of this town. They have two children, Effie A., born October 24, 1876; Arthur S., born October 10, 1879. They live on a farm near Sauquoit, Oneida county. George H. was born February 24, 1857. He married Florence Rawlings, of Philadelphia, Pa. They life in Jersey City, N.J. Mr. Burpee and his wife still live on his farm in Litchfield. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. 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